Just a thought, maybe it came with the fawning over of Putin and the CCP?

People aren’t shouting “tankie” at you. You people are self identifying as tankies.

WFT is wrong with you?

Exactly. Hopefully he has actually said that to his people and not just leaked it to the press.

I wouldn’t take it as face value, it reads more like a deliberate leak to the press, than an actual email to employees.

Not that warming people not to identify themselves as Reddit employees isn’t a sensible message, emotions are high and it only takes one crazy person.

I would be hilarious if this were their shitty app ddosing their servers, because they drove all the subreddits away.

You clearly are not /u/spez

No this is something big companies do all the time to test how well it does with a subset of customers before rolling it out fully.